HIS 146 - US History 1877‐Present

Offered WILecture‐3 3 credit hrs/3 contact hrsA survey of American history from the era of Reconstruction to the present. Specific topics to be addressed include the “Last” West, industrialization, Progressive Era, World Wars One and Two, “Roaring” Twenties, Great Depression and New Deal, civil rights, post‐war society, politics, and the cold war. Important changes in American society, politics, the economy, and foreign affairs will be highlighted as the United States became an industrial giant and rose to a position of an international power.